Friday, May 20, 2011
May. 20th, 2011 11:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bearshortyI think the hardest part this summer will be limiting internet use. I discovered today that is it easier to take a couple 30 min internet breaks during the day than not the use internet at all until evening. I don’t remember what I used to do before having internet so easily accessible.
Arthur Conan Doyle’s “Scandal in Bohemia” I wanted to read this story for a long time and one of the episodes of the next season of “Sherlock” will be based on it.
Irene Adler is 30! She is a bit different than she is always portrayed in movies. Less devious because really all she did was preserve a photograph to protect herself from her former lover and then catch on to Sherlock Holmes’ schemes and flee. She was sort of blackmailing but we never know why and why did she marry so fast to Norton. But the whole plot of this story is there is a scandalous photograph; Holmes needs to find it but underestimates the person who has the photograph. It is certainly not love between Holmes and Irene Adler; but admiration because Holmes thinks so highly of himself and so low of everyone else, especially women. Watson is such a fun narrator – “You don’t mind breaking the law?” “Not at the least” He misses Holmes since his marriage.
I signed up for Historical Big Bang for the fall/winter. I’m going to do some kind of Highlander story; I just couldn’t pass up history. And it will be challenge to write 10,000-20,000 words. I think 8,000 or so was the longest I ever wrote. Can’t think of this now, but in September this should be interesting to do after teaching and grading all day.
Cross-stitch: all backstitch for baby bear and blanket and some backstitch for the cube. All dark grey again.
Arthur Conan Doyle’s “Scandal in Bohemia” I wanted to read this story for a long time and one of the episodes of the next season of “Sherlock” will be based on it.
Irene Adler is 30! She is a bit different than she is always portrayed in movies. Less devious because really all she did was preserve a photograph to protect herself from her former lover and then catch on to Sherlock Holmes’ schemes and flee. She was sort of blackmailing but we never know why and why did she marry so fast to Norton. But the whole plot of this story is there is a scandalous photograph; Holmes needs to find it but underestimates the person who has the photograph. It is certainly not love between Holmes and Irene Adler; but admiration because Holmes thinks so highly of himself and so low of everyone else, especially women. Watson is such a fun narrator – “You don’t mind breaking the law?” “Not at the least” He misses Holmes since his marriage.
I signed up for Historical Big Bang for the fall/winter. I’m going to do some kind of Highlander story; I just couldn’t pass up history. And it will be challenge to write 10,000-20,000 words. I think 8,000 or so was the longest I ever wrote. Can’t think of this now, but in September this should be interesting to do after teaching and grading all day.
Cross-stitch: all backstitch for baby bear and blanket and some backstitch for the cube. All dark grey again.